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Last sunday EFE news agency, the leading one in Spanish speaking world, distributed an article about Panoramio that appeared in several newspapers and websites around the World; CNN+, La Vanguardia, Terra and some other ones). As a result traffic from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and other Spanish speaking countries boosted.
Yesterday I was interviewed about Panoramio […]

Last Thursday Joaquín was in Madrid to get an Honorable Mention for Panoramio at Google Maps Spain’s contest, organized for Ojo Buscador and sponsored for Google Spain.
There were 52 mash-ups running for the prize and I believe it was very difficult for the members of the jury, Matthew “Chewy” Trewhella, from Google, Mike Pegg […]

Geocoded photos with coordinates in EXIF tags have advantages. You can create your own maps, KML files for Google Earth and geocoded photos are automatically located in Panoramio, so you don’t need to find the rigth location manually in the map. But, how to get your photos geocoded?
The perfect solution would be cameras with built-in […]

Last month Panoramio reached 35.000 photos and 6.000 people. Just two months ago we had 20.000 photos and around 4.000 people. That means 75% and 50% growth respectively. Not bad.
We want to thank all the people that use Panoramio. ¡Gracias!

Two weeks ago Joaquín Cuenca and me where at Geo Developer Day in Googleplex. It was a day for meeting other developers that also use Google Maps API and make questions and suggestions directly to the developers of the API, Google Maps and Google Earth. We met Luistxo and Josu from Tagzania, the other Spanish […]

A while ago I put in Panoramio a put a simple spam barrier in Panoramio. You want to post a comment? You have to tell me the name of your planet.
Stupid? yup, simple? yup, effective? until a couple of weeks ago, yup.
And then something happen. The spam barrier was somewhat broken, and big way. Panoramio […]

Oh, lazy web, do you know why, oh why, does it takes more than 30 seconds to enter the site admin of a wordpress powered blog? (this very one, in fact)
I would also be grateful if you know how to fix it!

Surprisingly Jerusalem was not included in the database of National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) we use in Panoramio. We thought that such a important city should be included, so we manually added it. Just now we realize how clever was the people from NGA “ignoring” the city.
After receiving e-mails, posts in the forum and comments […]

INSPIRE directive from European Union guarantees the right of the public to discover, and view, geospatial data (mainly maps) for free. That’s good. However access to the geospatial data and the right to republish it are not free of cost under the current wording of this directive.
In the U.S. government geospatial data is completly free […]

Panoramio has appeared in March edition of The Atlantic Monthly inside a long article about Google Earth: “Spy’s-eye View”

And also the last week in El País, the leading Spanish newspaper: